Chapter 24: Monsters (1) (Revised Version)
In a daze, I felt like I was lying on someone's back, and a hand tapped me on the shoulder, and the feeling of splitting headache came back instantly. The nerves in the eye seemed to be spasmodic, and it took a few tries to barely open their eyes, and the beating flames looked particularly strange in the darkness.
"Boss, are you awake?" The grasshopper stood next to me with a torch.
I touched my forehead, it was hot and hot, like I had a fever.
"What is this place?" I pointed to my head and asked the grasshopper, "Which bastard hit me just now?" ”
The Grasshopper shrugged with her hands outstretched, "I don't know, you're already faint when I wake up." ”
"Fainted?" I tried to remember what had happened, but strangely enough, I only had bits and pieces in my head, and these fragments seemed to give me a headache, and I just wanted to faint and sleep again.
In the darkness ahead, a familiar voice came, "It's good to wake up, I need your help here." ”
The person who spoke gradually approached us, and it turned out to be Jiang Yuan.
By the light of the torches, I could see the structure of the place, a huge palace carved by hand, with a passage on the east and west sides, and nothing could be seen in the dark.
In the corner of the square hall there are a lot of colorful terracotta figurines, some of them have been completed, some are semi-finished, I asked the grasshopper to take one to see, these are the maid figurines, from the color of its own remains, it can be seen that this is a batch of funerary goods, and the grade is not low.
I patted the guy who was carrying me on his back, "Let me down, I can walk on my own." ”
Leaning against the wall for a while, I saw a familiar face when I raised my eyes, it turned out that it was Liang Jun who had been carrying me just now.
In the passage on the east side of the palace, a little light was gradually approaching us, Jiang Yuan and Liang Jun immediately drew their guns and waited for the battle, while the grasshopper protected me behind me, and carefully told me to protect my head and not knock others out again.
I nodded in agreement, and my hand involuntarily touched the back of my head, there was indeed a bag, and it hurt to press it gently.
The beating flames flashed a few times and then suddenly disappeared, and Jiang Yuan fired a shot into the darkness ahead, and the sound of gunfire echoed in the palace several times before gradually disappearing.
I said, "Why shoot it, what if it's your own people?" ”。
"How can you be sure that you are a human, here, anything can happen, just in case, you can only strike first." Jiang Yuan's words will never leave you with room to refute and question, although I also agree with his point of view, but I always feel that it is still a little inappropriate to shoot indiscriminately in this way.
There was silence for almost a minute, nothing happened, I blinked, looked around, and asked, "What about the others?" ”
Liang Jun said: "They are still below. ”
I let out an "oh" and continued to ask, "What the hell is going on, and why are we the only ones here?" ”
Jiang Yuan looked at the endless darkness in front of him indifferently, "It's a long story. ”
I was in a hurry, grabbed him by the collar, and said, "You have to say it too, isn't it shorter if you say a little?" ”
Jiang Yuan glanced at me strangely, "I don't want to say it." ”
The reason for rejection is always the simplest.
As he spoke, he only felt that something was crawling on his head, and instinctively grabbed it with his hands, but he caught a very strange soft creature.
The black and shiny black hair is twenty or thirty centimeters long, and tens of thousands of them are intertwined with each other, like a black rice ball.
Placed in the palm of his hand, the black rice balls instantly turned into a long black worm about ten centimeters long, and those things that looked like hair were actually the hair of this long worm.
The head of the black insect is triangular, and in addition to one eye on each side of the face, there is also a dark green fluorescent celestial eye in the middle.
The grasshopper leaned over and looked at it, smiled and said, "It turns out that the earthworm in the back garden of Erlang Shen's house looks like this." ”
The black worm seems to know the human language, and when the grasshopper makes fun of it unscrupulously, it actually spews out a puff of black smoke, which tastes a bit like the oil pot at home is burned.
"It also farts and attacks people." The gnats covered their noses and screamed.
The screams alarmed Jiang Yuan and Liang Jun, and at this time, I suddenly felt unbearable itching all over my body, and black spots the size of mung beans appeared on my exposed skin.
Liang Jun fired a shot at me, just hitting the black worm that I threw out, and the moment it hit the ground, a cloud of black gas suddenly appeared under my feet, and I felt that the place where I stepped on it began to soften, a bit like a swamp mud pit in the rainforest.
The gnats immediately came to pull me, but it was too late, I only felt that my whole body was stiff, and I couldn't move at all, and I could only watch myself sink gradually.
Jiang Yuan immediately put a rope around my waist and shouted, "Dajun, go and save people, don't let him fall in." ”
I stretched out my hands, but I couldn't exert any strength.
There was also a scream from the grasshopper's side, and he was in the same situation as me, the ground was rippling for no reason, and this black gas seemed to have the effect of corroding rocks, and as soon as it appeared, the rocks under his feet were as soft as tofu.
Jiang Yuan rushed over to save the grasshopper, but the grasshopper had just reached the ankle on the grasshopper's side, and my side had already reached the waist.
Liang Jun's arms suddenly exerted force, his camouflage uniform, especially the part of his arm, instantly cracked several holes, with a deafening roar, I felt like I was thrown into the air, and then hit the wall mountain and finally fell into a pile of terracotta figurines, crushing a lot of exquisite maid figurines.
"Dajun, your grandmother wants to kill me." I grinned in pain, and a few words slurred between my teeth to complain.
Jiang Yuan saw that the army had rescued me, and immediately blew the whistle, one long and one short, this secret whistle means to evacuate.
After receiving the instructions, Liang Jun walked quickly to Jiang Yuan, pulled and flicked and pushed, a set of actions was completed in an instant, there were two more people around me, Jiang Yuan naturally landed very neatly and smoothly, and the grasshopper was worse than me, not only hit the wall, but also fell into a mud pit next to it, and came out like a mud monkey embarrassed.
The three of them simply sorted out their equipment and went to meet Liang Jun, but before they could take two steps, they saw that the miner's lamp above Liang Jun's head suddenly went out, and was replaced by a pair of dark green eyes as big as a bronze bell, which was looking at us fiercely at the moment.
The grasshopper yelled, "Oops, the mother worm is going to go crazy, get away." ”
Jiang Yuan pulled me and the gnats out and pushed them out hard, he threw his miner's lamp to me, and said, "You find a place to hide, this thing is blind, as long as it remains dark, it won't find you." ”
After speaking, I stepped on the rock wall and turned over, and after a few flashes, I reached Liang Jun's side, and I could barely see the two people standing parallel in front of this behemoth with the help of the ultra-long light source of the strong flashlight and my own excellent eyesight.
"Boss, don't look at it, let's hide first." The gnats tried to pull me away.
I shook off the gnat's hand, shoved him with the lamp and the gun, and said, "You hide first, and don't come out until you hear the whistle." ”
The gnats didn't do anything, stood in front of me, and shouted: "Boss, are you crazy, you and I are ordinary people, in front of this monster, we will die." ”
He deliberately put the word "death" very seriously, as if he intended to remind me of the possible outcome after willfulness.
I patted him on the shoulder, and said with some seriousness: "Brother, those two people are also ordinary people raised by their parents, what they can face, why can't we, I owe Yuanyuan a life, today, I can't save Jiang Yuan when I see death." ”
The grasshopper doesn't seem to be able to understand my thoughts at this moment, maybe I've been a profiteer in Panjiayuan for a long time, and the grasshopper has become accustomed to the way I disguise it.
He didn't say a word, just grabbed my clothes, looked at me with extremely determined eyes, and under the firelight, I found that the grasshopper at this moment, both in its eyes and the aura emanating from its body, was the same as when I fought the green-haired scorpions and terracotta warriors in front of the tomb before.
"Boss."
"Well, if you have something to say, let it go."
"Me"
Facing a hand knife, I also felt a sharp pain in my back, and I only felt that I was instantly knocked to the ground by a powerful force when I was attacked by the enemy, and when I got up, I saw that the entire underground cave was instantly lit up, and the lighting equipment was not a torch, but saltpeter hidden in the rock wall, I just didn't know what happened, the whole rock wall was red abnormally, and the temperature was getting higher and higher.
With the help of enough light, I finally saw the true face of this female worm, the oval head with two basin-sized eyes glowing green and fluorescent, no nose, but a bloody mouth, and a body five times the size of the head underneath, soft and boneless feeling made people look a little disgusting. More than a dozen tentacles as thick as tree stumps were at least twenty meters long, dangling slowly in the air, as if looking for something.